Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning.